Henry Purcell - Odes

Henry Purcell
Ode à Sainte Cécile – Ode pour l'anniversaire de la Reine Mary
Deller Consort & Stour Festival Chamber Orchestra – Alfred Deller, dir.
Harmonia mundi « Deller Recordings » HMD 222 / HM 222 [LP, (LP / sleeve)]
Harmonia mundi HMU 222 [LP]
Harmonia mundi HM 222 [LP]
Harmonia mundi HM 40 222 [Cass.]
Harmonia mundi « Musique d'Abord » HMA 43 222 [Cass.]
Harmonia mundi « Musique d'Abord » HMA 190 222 [CD]
Musical Heritage Society MHS 3 445 [LP]

Contents:

    Henry Purcell
  1. Ode on St. Cecilia's Day (1683) Welcome to the Pleasures (1683)
    1. Overture
    2. Welcome to the Pleasures
    3. Here the deities approve & While joys celestial
    4. Beauty thou scene of love
    5. In a consort of voices
    2. —
    Henry Purcell:
  2. Ode on Queen Mary's Birthday: Love's Goddess sure was blind (1692)
    1. Overture
    2. Love's Goddess sure was blind
    3. Sweetness of nature
    4. Long may she reign
    5. May her blest example chase
    6. Many such days
    7. May she to Heaven late return

Playing time: 20' 44" + 18' 30" = 39' 14" (LP) or 39' 33" (CD).

Performers:
The Deller Consort
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Mark Deller (counter-tenor), Christina Clarke (soprano), Neil Jenkins (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
Stour Music Festival Chamber Orchestra
with Robert Elliott (harpsichord), Jane Ryan (viola di gamba)
Alfred Deller, dir.

Recording site and date:
Church of All Saints, Boughton, Aluph, Kent, UK [1971 or prior];
Rel.: 1972

Compilation:
Harmonia Mundi "Musique d'Abord" HMA 290 030 / 035 [CDx6] Harmonia mundi 30e Anniversaire
Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 8057 / 8059 [CDx3] Les plus belles oeuvres de Henry Purcell

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 165-31 (march 1972):

Comments:
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Pierre-F. Roberge